A close look at Felipe Perez Roque's speech Wednesday to the Havana
conference of émigrés suggests that the meeting has less to do with
travel to and from Cuba than with anti-embargo publicity.
The foreign minister's address stresses revolutionary fervor but
minimizes travel-related issues. Consider this:
"This is a meeting to exchange experiences, propose new actions and
improve the mechanisms of coordination and communication among us. It is
an opportunity to discuss and agree upon new initiatives to fight the
blockade, to denounce the impunity of terrorists, to confront the lies
that are spread against our country, and to demand that [...] our five
compatriots, heroes of the struggle against terrorism, return to Cuba."
Other reasons for the meeting, Perez Roque said, are to pay homage to
the Antonio Maceo Brigade and to assorted revolutionaries who died for
their country.
In his only allusion to travel (he did not even use the word "travel")
he said:
"Our intention to increasingly facilitate contacts and communication
between the Cubans who live abroad and their families in Cuba remains
unchanged. The Cuban government will continue to work, seriously and
measuredly, in quest of this objective."
The conference ends Friday.
---Renato Perez Pizarro
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